General Politics Discussion (III) [ARCHIVED] • Page 27

Not really. It's easy to cosponsor a bill when you know it has no chance of being scheduled for A committee hearing and even less of a chance that it will pass your chamber let alone be signed into law.it's purely political for 2018

 

I mean, all of these actions are political. I think the point is, the idea has much more traction, particularly within their base, than it once did. If, however, they get majorities and still don't try to push for it, then there will be consequences at the ballot. No amount of political realism will save them.

 

Pardon my ignorance, but what does this mean exactly? Why do they want this information? For advertising? I thought facebook and google already did that anyway.

 

‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Director’s Karl Marx Film Lands at The Orchard

“The Young Karl Marx” explores the origins of the international Socialist movement, the emergence of the Communist League, and its founding document, the Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Peck said, “A few years back, while the world was going through yet another financial crisis, I felt the need to go back to the basics: The analysis of the violent capitalist society we are still embedded in, through these three young Europeans of wealthy families (Karl, Friedrich, and Jenny) who decided to change this utterly unequal world. And they eventually did; though not the way they imagined it. I am thrilled to be working with The Orchard to bring the film to the American audience later this year.”

 

"Rather than taking a more extreme view than the likes of Murray, Williamson, and now liberal columnist Frank Rich, Land has simply carried the mainstream ideology to its inexorable conclusions. The ugly underbelly of the conventional view of market society as a meritocracy is precisely Land’s hyperracism: the assumption that some people are more fit than others, and their socioeconomic status is deserved. The contingent effects of specific historical tendencies and social institutions are exalted with the supposedly providential necessity of DNA. Thus the complex economic history resulting in the hegemony of Europe, the United States, and East Asia is taken to mean that whites and Asians are the most biologically fit; the effects of constrained social mobility and the self-reinforcing effects of economic inequality become the claim that poverty is heritable. The fantasy of meritocracy cannot survive a confrontation with the reality of a world shaped by imperialism and white supremacy. But unlike liberals who believe in the fantasy, Land admits its implications."

The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction

 

Fox News Sued by Two Black Women for Racial Discrimination

 

March was a super busy month for me and I feel like I've been pretty absent from chorus, hope you're all doing well.

 

There's been a lot of Madness.

 

Oh man you know Paul Ryan has some internet skeletons

 

Mmm. I can't wait for the blue dog strategy part two. I remember that working out particularly well when they were crafting the ACA.

 

Speaking of Matty Y..

 

Beat you.

 

Beat you.

 

We both beat Jason *slap hands*